“You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they’d do the same for you.”

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Pitching always beats batting – and vice-versa.

If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

We were over-whelming underdogs.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

The game is supposed to be fun. If you had a bad day, don’t worry. You can’t expect to get a hit every game.

Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don’t buy it.

I don’t like seeing myself on television. I don’t like it.

Little things are big.

I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.

You don’t have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it’ll go.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

I’m glad I was in the Navy.

I ain’t ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

If you’re playing baseball and thinking about managing, you’re crazy. You’d be better off thinking about being an owner.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I’d put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.